Vaselines Anthology Gets a Deluxe Reissue

Because you need three versions of "The Day I Was a Horse" in your life

The eternally beloved Scottish twee duo the Vaselines basically owe their legendary status to two things. (OK, three, if one of those things is the actual music that they made.) The band got two big public boosts, both of which came after their 1990 breakup. One was a frothing endorsement from Kurt Cobain; Nirvana famously covered "Molly's Lips", "Son of a Gun", and "Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam". The other was The Way of the Vaselines, a 1992 Sub Pop reissue that collected the band's two EPs and their one full-length album. And now The Way of the Vaselines will get its own deluxe reissue.

On May 5, Sub Pop will release Enter the Vaselines, a monster two-CD/three-LP set that will include everything the Vaselines ever recorded plus some. Besides everything that they already reissued on The Way of the Vaselines, Sub Pop will also include unreleased demos and live recordings, taped in Bristol in 1986 and London in 1988. After this, there will basically be no more Vaselines stuff left to reissue, which means the band, who reunited for a few shows in recent years, will just have to go ahead and make another album.

The Vaselines have two shows lined up for this year so far: March 27 at the Forum in London and May 28 at the Primavera Sound Festival in Barcelona.

Enter the Vaselines:

01 Son of a Gun02 Rory Rides Me Raw03 You Think You're a Man04 Dying for It05 Molly's Lips06 Teenage Superstars07 Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam08 Sex Sux (Amen)09 Slushy10 Monsterpussy11 Bitch12 No Hope13 Oliver Twisted14 The Day I Was a Horse15 DumDum16 Hairy17 Lovecraft18 Dying for It (The Blues)19 Let's Get Ugly20 Son of a Gun (demo)21 Rosary Job (demo)22 Red Poppy (demo)23 Son of a Gun (live in Bristol)24 Rosary Job (live in Bristol)25 Red Poppy (live in Bristol)26 Rory Rides Me Raw (live in Bristol)27 You Think You're a Man (live in Bristol)28 Dying for It (live in London)29 Monsterpussy (live in London)30 Let's Get Ugly (live in London)31 Molly's Lips (live in London)32 The Day I Was a Horse (live in London)33 The Day I Was a Horse (Again) (live in London)34 Sex Sux (Amen) (live in London)35 I Didn't Know I Loved You ('Til I Saw You Rock 'n' Roll) (live in London)36 Teenage Superstars (live in London)